delayacct: track delays from write-protect copy

Delay accounting does not track the delay of write-protect copy.  When
tasks trigger many write-protect copys(include COW and unsharing of
anonymous pages[1]), it may spend a amount of time waiting for them.  To
get the delay of tasks in write-protect copy, could help users to evaluate
the impact of using KSM or fork() or GUP.

Also update tools/accounting/getdelays.c:

    / # ./getdelays -dl -p 231
    print delayacct stats ON
    listen forever
    PID     231

    CPU             count     real total  virtual total    delay total  delay average
                     6247     1859000000     2154070021     1674255063          0.268ms
    IO              count    delay total  delay average
                        0              0              0ms
    SWAP            count    delay total  delay average
                        0              0              0ms
    RECLAIM         count    delay total  delay average
                        0              0              0ms
    THRASHING       count    delay total  delay average
                        0              0              0ms
    COMPACT         count    delay total  delay average
                        3          72758              0ms
    WPCOPY          count    delay total  delay average
                     3635      271567604              0ms

[1] commit 31cc5bc4af70("mm: support GUP-triggered unsharing of anonymous pages")

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Xuexin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ran Xiaokai <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: wangyong <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

Author: yangyang20220519

Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ c) swapping in pages
 d) memory reclaim
 e) thrashing page cache
 f) direct compact
+g) write-protect copy
 
 and makes these statistics available to userspace through
 the taskstats interface.
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ this structure. See
 for a description of the fields pertaining to delay accounting.
 It will generally be in the form of counters returning the cumulative
 delay seen for cpu, sync block I/O, swapin, memory reclaim, thrash page
-cache, direct compact etc.
+cache, direct compact, write-protect copy etc.
 
 Taking the difference of two successive readings of a given
 counter (say cpu_delay_total) for a task will give the delay
@@ -117,6 +118,8 @@ Get sum of delays, since system boot, for all pids with tgid 5::
 	                    0              0              0ms
 	COMPACT         count    delay total  delay average
 	                    0              0              0ms
+        WPCOPY          count    delay total  delay average
+                            0              0              0ms
 
 Get IO accounting for pid 1, it works only with -p::
 

include/linux/delayacct.h

@@ -45,9 +45,13 @@ struct task_delay_info {
 	u64 compact_start;
 	u64 compact_delay;	/* wait for memory compact */
 
+	u64 wpcopy_start;
+	u64 wpcopy_delay;	/* wait for write-protect copy */
+
 	u32 freepages_count;	/* total count of memory reclaim */
 	u32 thrashing_count;	/* total count of thrash waits */
 	u32 compact_count;	/* total count of memory compact */
+	u32 wpcopy_count;	/* total count of write-protect copy */
 };
 #endif
 
@@ -75,6 +79,8 @@ extern void __delayacct_swapin_start(void);
 extern void __delayacct_swapin_end(void);
 extern void __delayacct_compact_start(void);
 extern void __delayacct_compact_end(void);
+extern void __delayacct_wpcopy_start(void);
+extern void __delayacct_wpcopy_end(void);
 
 static inline void delayacct_tsk_init(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
@@ -191,6 +197,24 @@ static inline void delayacct_compact_end(void)
 		__delayacct_compact_end();
 }
 
+static inline void delayacct_wpcopy_start(void)
+{
+	if (!static_branch_unlikely(&delayacct_key))
+		return;
+
+	if (current->delays)
+		__delayacct_wpcopy_start();
+}
+
+static inline void delayacct_wpcopy_end(void)
+{
+	if (!static_branch_unlikely(&delayacct_key))
+		return;
+
+	if (current->delays)
+		__delayacct_wpcopy_end();
+}
+
 #else
 static inline void delayacct_init(void)
 {}
@@ -225,6 +249,10 @@ static inline void delayacct_compact_start(void)
 {}
 static inline void delayacct_compact_end(void)
 {}
+static inline void delayacct_wpcopy_start(void)
+{}
+static inline void delayacct_wpcopy_end(void)
+{}
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT */
 

include/uapi/linux/taskstats.h

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
  */
 
 
-#define TASKSTATS_VERSION	12
+#define TASKSTATS_VERSION	13
 #define TS_COMM_LEN		32	/* should be >= TASK_COMM_LEN
 					 * in linux/sched.h */
 
@@ -194,6 +194,10 @@ struct taskstats {
 	__u64   ac_exe_dev;     /* program binary device ID */
 	__u64   ac_exe_inode;   /* program binary inode number */
 	/* v12 end */
+
+	/* v13: Delay waiting for write-protect copy */
+	__u64    wpcopy_count;
+	__u64    wpcopy_delay_total;
 };
 
 

kernel/delayacct.c

@@ -177,11 +177,14 @@ int delayacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *d, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	d->thrashing_delay_total = (tmp < d->thrashing_delay_total) ? 0 : tmp;
 	tmp = d->compact_delay_total + tsk->delays->compact_delay;
 	d->compact_delay_total = (tmp < d->compact_delay_total) ? 0 : tmp;
+	tmp = d->wpcopy_delay_total + tsk->delays->wpcopy_delay;
+	d->wpcopy_delay_total = (tmp < d->wpcopy_delay_total) ? 0 : tmp;
 	d->blkio_count += tsk->delays->blkio_count;
 	d->swapin_count += tsk->delays->swapin_count;
 	d->freepages_count += tsk->delays->freepages_count;
 	d->thrashing_count += tsk->delays->thrashing_count;
 	d->compact_count += tsk->delays->compact_count;
+	d->wpcopy_count += tsk->delays->wpcopy_count;
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tsk->delays->lock, flags);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -249,3 +252,16 @@ void __delayacct_compact_end(void)
 		      &current->delays->compact_delay,
 		      &current->delays->compact_count);
 }
+
+void __delayacct_wpcopy_start(void)
+{
+	current->delays->wpcopy_start = local_clock();
+}
+
+void __delayacct_wpcopy_end(void)
+{
+	delayacct_end(&current->delays->lock,
+		      &current->delays->wpcopy_start,
+		      &current->delays->wpcopy_delay,
+		      &current->delays->wpcopy_count);
+}

mm/hugetlb.c

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include <linux/cma.h>
 #include <linux/migrate.h>
 #include <linux/nospec.h>
+#include <linux/delayacct.h>
 
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
@@ -5230,6 +5231,8 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_wp(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep);
 	old_page = pte_page(pte);
 
+	delayacct_wpcopy_start();
+
 retry_avoidcopy:
 	/*
 	 * If no-one else is actually using this page, we're the exclusive
@@ -5240,6 +5243,8 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_wp(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			page_move_anon_rmap(old_page, vma);
 		if (likely(!unshare))
 			set_huge_ptep_writable(vma, haddr, ptep);
+
+		delayacct_wpcopy_end();
 		return 0;
 	}
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageAnon(old_page) && PageAnonExclusive(old_page),
@@ -5309,6 +5314,7 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_wp(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			 * race occurs while re-acquiring page table
 			 * lock, and our job is done.
 			 */
+			delayacct_wpcopy_end();
 			return 0;
 		}
 
@@ -5367,6 +5373,8 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_wp(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	put_page(old_page);
 
 	spin_lock(ptl); /* Caller expects lock to be held */
+
+	delayacct_wpcopy_end();
 	return ret;
 }
 

mm/memory.c

@@ -3090,6 +3090,8 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	int page_copied = 0;
 	struct mmu_notifier_range range;
 
+	delayacct_wpcopy_start();
+
 	if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
 		goto oom;
 
@@ -3114,6 +3116,8 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 			put_page(new_page);
 			if (old_page)
 				put_page(old_page);
+
+			delayacct_wpcopy_end();
 			return 0;
 		}
 	}
@@ -3220,12 +3224,16 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 			free_swap_cache(old_page);
 		put_page(old_page);
 	}
+
+	delayacct_wpcopy_end();
 	return (page_copied && !unshare) ? VM_FAULT_WRITE : 0;
 oom_free_new:
 	put_page(new_page);
 oom:
 	if (old_page)
 		put_page(old_page);
+
+	delayacct_wpcopy_end();
 	return VM_FAULT_OOM;
 }
 

tools/accounting/getdelays.c

@@ -207,6 +207,8 @@ static void print_delayacct(struct taskstats *t)
 	       "THRASHING%12s%15s%15s\n"
 	       "      %15llu%15llu%15llums\n"
 	       "COMPACT  %12s%15s%15s\n"
+	       "      %15llu%15llu%15llums\n"
+	       "WPCOPY   %12s%15s%15s\n"
 	       "      %15llu%15llu%15llums\n",
 	       "count", "real total", "virtual total",
 	       "delay total", "delay average",
@@ -234,7 +236,11 @@ static void print_delayacct(struct taskstats *t)
 	       "count", "delay total", "delay average",
 	       (unsigned long long)t->compact_count,
 	       (unsigned long long)t->compact_delay_total,
-	       average_ms(t->compact_delay_total, t->compact_count));
+	       average_ms(t->compact_delay_total, t->compact_count),
+	       "count", "delay total", "delay average",
+	       (unsigned long long)t->wpcopy_count,
+	       (unsigned long long)t->wpcopy_delay_total,
+	       average_ms(t->wpcopy_delay_total, t->wpcopy_count));
 }
 
 static void task_context_switch_counts(struct taskstats *t)